IP and IT
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- E-commerce typo costs hotel dear
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- Many businesses regard the Data Protection Act 1998 as something that merely requires a lot of form filling and the payment of fees, but there is a lot more to it than that. The purpose of the Act is to protect a person's right to privacy with regard...
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- Auction watch service against eBay fraudsters
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- Avatars tackled for libel
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- Flexible working
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- Blogging makes profit.
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- fake reviews and sales to end
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- Boycott Walmart site allowed.
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- Comparative advertising-O2 dispute-trade mark infringement
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- Comparative advertising-O2 dispute-trade mark infringement
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- CFI finds likelihood of confusion between QUARTZ marks for software
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- The European Commission has indicated that it intends to make a significant reduction in the level of Community trade mark (CTM) fees in order to make the CTM system more accessible to small and medium-sized businesses , although it does not say when...
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- Confidential information loss.
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- Confidential information loss.
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- The Court of Appeal has partly upheld an appeal by a claimant against the High Court's decision to dismiss his claim relating to the loss of his franchisees. The Court of Appeal held that the judge in the High Court was entitled, on the...
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- Court of Appeal dismisses appeal over copyright ownership of computer programs
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- Court of Appeal partly allows appeal in dispute over LONSDALE licence agreements
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- Courts install wi-fi facilities
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- The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has recently issued guidance for organisations that lose personal data, having reported that it has been notified of nearly 100 such incidents to date. One of the less intuitively obvious suggestions is to...
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- Prison promised for data abusers
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- Data protection abuse-prison promised
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- data regulations
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- Illegal downloaders helped by data protection laws.
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- When you discover that a business has breached your patent, what should you do? The answer to this question has two elements. The first is based on what you can do in law and the second is based on business strategy. Firstly, before picking a fight...
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- The Data Protection Act 1998 gives individuals the right to access information held about them by organisations. The Act governs how organisations can use the personal information they hold including how they acquire, store, share or dispose of it. ...
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- Mower design rights dispute
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- UK law relating to the sending of unsolicited direct marketing material by electronic means are based on the EC Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications. A major aim of the Directive was to cut down on the amount of spam that e-mail users...
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- Disclosure of confidential information through social networking sites
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- Telephone line diversion
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- Data protection for paper records.
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- The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations introduced specific legislation to underpin e-commerce. If your business has an Internet presence then you need to make sure that you are not falling foul of these new rules. The Regulations do not...
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- Dangers of online social networks
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- Copyright is a right which exists without any specific steps having to be taken. It applies whenever there is a work created which contains original skill or labour. It applies to written material and that includes email, as a recent High Court ruling has...
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- Email abuse of marketing.
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- Facebook: reputational risks for corporates
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- Fighting the phishers
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- As you may know hyper-text mark up language (html) is the language of websites. It allows pages to be linked easily. In websites you often see hyper-links allowing you to jump to another site or to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of another webpage....
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- Franchisee and data protection-who owns the data?
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- Franchisee and data protection
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- The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 came fully into force on 1 January 2005 and it has serious implications for businesses doing business with the public sector. The reason for this is that because one of the aims of the Act is to engender greater...
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- Google in breach of copyright.
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- Government to update Suicide Act for internet misuse
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- Gowers review gives Trading Standards new powers.
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- Star Wars IP conflict
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- FA beats Jules Rimet Cup to win 1966 mascot. The High Court has found that the Football Association (FA) could prevent applications by Jules Rimet Cup Ltd (JRCL) to register as trade marks WORLD CUP WILLIE (the mark), and a device mark combining the...
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- High Court continues interim injunction in customer list case
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- Settlement duties inferred that those owed to court are owed to claimant also.
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- Website defamers identity revealed
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- Software ownership would not be assigned
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- ex-employees who copied and retained various documents belonging to their ex-employer, such as customer contact details and sales figures
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- Home working trends for 2007.
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- Happy home workers are more content.
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- data protection breach by HMRC
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- Unlawful trade in personal information.
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- School play photos are allowed.
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- ICO orders leeds Council to release questionnaire information.
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- New powers for ICO wanted
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- ICO statement on proposed government communications database
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- IPO publishes booklet on licensing IP
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- IPO rejects Target Application
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- IR35 Dragonfly decision
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- FOIA on Iraq
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- Intel negligent for causing stress.
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- One of the biggest sources of disputes in industries based on innovation is a difference of opinion about who owns the intellectual property (IP) created in terms of designs, software, processes and systems. This is a general guide for businesses to the...
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- The British Standards Institution has published (at 30) new guidance on making sure that your website is disability-friendly. Under the Disability Discrimination Act , it is unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by...
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- L Oreal wins trade mark appeal The cosmetics giant won its appeal to the Court Of Appeal(CA) towards the end of last year when the court overturned an earlier decision by the High Court that had sent shockwaves-no pun intended-through...
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- Making your mark-trademark law changes
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- Weblog was misleading advertising.
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- More trouble for Google-MTV attack YouTube
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- Workplace music needs a licence
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- the Companies (Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2008
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- New information now mandatory on company websites
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- Nominet to launch online domain name transfer service for registrants
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- Ofcom consults on charges for 0870 numbers and regulation of 087 numbers
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- Ofcom fines Barclaycard for silent calls
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- Ofcom says no privacy rights for member of public filmed drunk
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- Online gaming boost for advertisers.
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- Growth in online selling brings Christmas cheer.
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- The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has launched an online personal information health check facility to help consumers manage their personal information and exercise their rights under the Data Protection Act 1998. The...
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- Liability for failings of open source software is a growing business risk for companies using free software developed by a collaboration of software programmers who do not in the end own the copyright. In the event of copyright...
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- open source and ownership of IP development
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- Overview: Changes under the 2006 Act of relevance to IP&IT
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- The UK Intellectual Property Office (formerly the Patent Office) offers a dispute resolution service which is aimed at preventing unnecessary litigation over patent disputes. The new opinions service allows anyone to request an opinion on any UK...
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- Checking for existing patents in force is easy (and free) if you use the UK Intellectual Property Office's (UKIPO) patent databases which are accessible online. The new databases replace the Patents Journal and are designed to make obtaining information...
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- PhonepayPlus launches review of mobile content premium-rate services
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- Copyright ownership in new company
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- Pre-contract negotiations
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- Protecting intellectual property has always been a complex area of law, but in one specific area things may be getting clearer. The Registered Designs Regulations 2001 include several protections for inventors of designs. If you have a new design which...
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- Protecting website copy
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- Your business has its own unique brand and reputation and it is vital in a competitive marketplace to ensure that these are protected from unscrupulous third parties. Some business owners do not believe there is any point in registering their trading or...
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- ICO and council win battle in FOIA tussle over residential addresses.
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- Revised sentencing guidelines for trade mark offences
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- ICO accepts undertaking from financial services company for breach of DPA
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- Google sued for trade mark infringement
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- The Economist fails to obtain transfer of theeconomist.com
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- Anyone processing personal data must comply with the eight enforceable principles of good practice. Here is a checklist. Data must be: fairly and lawfully processed; processed for limited purposes; adequate, relevant and not...
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- MySpace and other online dangers for job candidates.
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- The future of the UK legal profession is digital declares an EU Lawyers group. The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has adopted draft guidelines which means chip and pin ID cards...
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- Often in the news for the wrong reasons-grooming, online suicides, defamation etc etc-HSBC earlier this year succumbed to student lobbying via the internet when students began a protest blog on Facebook against overdraft interest charges that were...
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- Tom Cruise beats cybersquatter
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- Domain name cannot be owned by pet/animal.
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- Business to business exclusion clauses
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- Freedom Of Information Act and vexatious requests.
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- Freedom Of Information Act and vexatious requests.
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- Copying websites-criminals-real danger.
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- Wayne Rooney beats cybersquatter
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- Webcontent watch for infringement
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- Since January 2007 it has been compulsory for certain business information to be present on corporate websites and emails or other electronic communications, including invoices and order forms. The regulations apply to all limited companies and limited...
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- The definition of Personal Data is contained in s1 of the Data Protection Act 1991. Personal Data is data that relates to a living individual who can be identified from the data or from the data and other information which is in possession of, or likely to...
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- These days it is increasingly the case that when your IT doesn't work, neither does your business. Clearly, the best way to deal with IT problems is prevention, which means doing regular backups, proper systems maintenance, keeping anti-virus protection up...
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- Illegal downloading blocked